"An agony. The exit like the entrance -……" — Lorrie Moore

"An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug."

— Lorrie Moore

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112 Quotes by Lorrie Moore

Lorrie Moore has 112 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Twenty-year-olds have a kind of emotional idealism about relationships and about the world that enables them to say, 'No, you…
Later I would come to believe that erotic ties were all a spell, a temporary psychosis, even a kind of…
All the way out I listen to the car AM radio, bad lyrics of trailer park love, gin and tonic…
Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity.…
For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick…
There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling…
The only really good piece of advice I have for my students is, 'Write something you'd never show your mother…
The detachment of the artist is kind of creepy. It's kind of rude, and yet really it's where art comes…
Love is art, not truth. It’s like painting scenery.
If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story,…
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.

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More Agony Quotes

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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father… — Ezra Taft Benson
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with… — Oswald Chambers
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll… — Tupac Shakur
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. — Sally Jessy Raphael
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have… — Albert Camus
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of… — Aldous Huxley
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other… — Aberjhani
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need… — Sydney J. Harris
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony.… — Arthur Miller

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